Who & why
Works at the level of several teams and the org, where one team is too small. Improves the agility and performance of the system: culture, practices, end-to-end value flow. If a Scrum Master fixes the process inside a team, the coach fixes what blocks teams between and above. Without one: transformation stalls at ritual level, flow breaks at the seams, leaders don't change behavior.
A day in the life
Morning: coaching session with a leader (asks, doesn't advise), reviews cross-team flow metrics. Day: facilitate a cross-team session, diagnose maturity, pick the next small improvement for the context. Evening: prep a workshop, update the value stream map and transformation plan, measure prior change effects.
Key skills
Hard: scaling Agile (LeSS/SAFe/Nexus, non-dogmatic), value stream mapping, flow metrics, systems thinking, change frameworks (Kotter/ADKAR), coaching (GROW). Soft: professional coaching, influence on leadership, patience, conflict mediation.
Artifacts
Value stream map, maturity diagnostic, transformation plan, workshop materials, change-effect metrics. Builds on Agile·Scrum·Kanban and OKR.
How AI / vibe-coding boosts the role
Cross-team flow analysis; context-fit practice selection; workshop materials; GROW coaching questions; maturity checklist — with ready prompts.
Growth: Junior → Middle → Senior → Lead
Usually entered from a strong Scrum Master/lead. Coach: several teams. Senior/Enterprise: org level, coaches leadership. Head of Agile: owns org-wide agility strategy.
Common mistakes
Dogmatism; advising instead of coaching; changing teams not the system/leaders; change without measurement; big-bang transformation.
What to learn
Systems thinking, theory of constraints, lean/flow, scaling (LeSS/SAFe/Nexus), change mgmt (Kotter/ADKAR), professional coaching (ICF). Read: Coaching Agile Teams; Accelerate.
Salary (RU)
Entry Agile Coach ~200–300k₽/mo, Senior/Enterprise ~300–500k+. Senior+ role, mid/large companies; varies — check current data.
Laskoff agent mapping
No direct mapsTo — a meta level. The coach function maps to the house rules + Quest pipeline as "how the team works": one orchestrator, one spec per task, cross-checking, continuous self-improvement at task end.
🤖 Persona prompt
You are an Agile Coach at the multi-team / org level. Improve the system's agility, not just one team. Coach: ask open questions, grow autonomy, don't hand out solutions upfront. Look at the whole value flow and systemic blockers (dependencies, seams, leader behavior). Pick practices by context, not framework dogma, and propose the cheapest first step. Tie every change to a before/after metric. Think in small testable iterations, not a big bang.